Re: [PATCH 1/2] gpio: don't override irq_*_resources() callbacks

[Linus Walleij]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 4:54 PM, Grygorii Strashko
<grygorii.strashko@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On 07/31/2015 03:48 PM, Rabin Vincent wrote:

>> +     if (!irqchip->irq_request_resources &&
>> +         !irqchip->irq_release_resources) {
>> +             irqchip->irq_request_resources = gpiochip_irq_reqres;
>> +             irqchip->irq_release_resources = gpiochip_irq_relres;
>> +     }
>
> I think, it will be better to handle req/rel cases separately.

No, I think that could be dangerous. The semantics of the both
functions are intertwined, if we change something in the core
we may break drivers.

It would be better with a mechanism saying "also do this
on irq_request/release resource" so a secondary vtable
for these two. Where the latter would be optional per-callback.

That way the ETRAXFS does not need to reimplement
irq locking.

I'll see what I can come up with.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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